Capt Amos Richardson Jr. (1728-1802)

Capt Amos Richardson Jr. Veteran

Birth

5 Mar 1728

Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA

Death

30 Sep 1802 (aged 74)

North Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA

Burial

North Coventry Cemetery

Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map

Memorial ID

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Died in the 74/75th year of his age (Headstone and footstone have different years)
h/o Phebe Richardson
Revolutionary War Lexington Alarm

Inscription

In Memory of Capt.
Amos Richardson
who died Sept. 30th
1802, in the 75th
Year of his Age.
"Blessed are the dead
that die in the Lord"

Footstone.
Revolutionary War
Capt.
Amos Richardson
Lexington Alarm
Died Sept. 30, 1802
Æ. 74 [sic 75].

On the day Amos died he was 74 years old, and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age) 75. His actual gravestone correctly uses the pre-1800s old style of stating a person's age at death. On the other hand, in the 1900s Charles Hale, the Connecticut state necologist, misused the symbol "Æ" by stating Amos' chronological age at death on the separate Revolutionary War memorial stone.